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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.
We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.
When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'
When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.
Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.
Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.
Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
Sometimes people who feel powerless, they come to bother their own kids, or they come to bother children.
The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
I love Serge Lutens orange blossom perfume; my mom got it for me. It's my favorite. It just smells clean.
I don't really wear makeup. I don't like the feeling of it. I just put mascara on, and that's kind of it.
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant.
When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.
People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.
I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.
I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.
Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.
We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
I'd like to do what I see in my head. I always feel like I'm directing with one hand tied behind my back.
It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'
There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.
I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.
Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.
I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.
If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.
You can be feminine without being a victim. You can be sexy and use your big-girl voice at the same time.
Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.
Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that Ive always demanded more from the sunset.